I believe the page where the Joker gets his smile back is as close to perfection as a comic page can get. Seeing it happen in real time will spoil it, or so I believe anyway. Part of its power is the gradual progression between panels of the smile returning, the gaps adding to its creepiness and affecting its pace.

I can't bloody find a link now, but I saw a couple of interviews with the team behind this a few months ago - same crew who did All-Star Superman, basically. That's where I heard Conroy is voicing Batman.

The All Star Superman movie was missing a lot of what made the comic work and there were some really frustrating changes. It was fine for what it was, and enjoyable. But a lot was lost in translation, too much in my opinion.

@SJDThe Stranger's retired from acting, so no. However, anyone who's seen Rango knows that Timothy Olyphant does a wicked Eastwood. It's not beyond the realm of possibilities that he'd be up to do a wicked Batman.

This might turn out good. But honestly, I find these DC animated things work better when they're more loosely connected to their source material (the TV shows, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths etc) than as proper adaptations. All-Star Superman was sort of nice but - and it's impossible not to compare - blatantly inferior to the comic. The fact that they stayed so close to Morrison's story only made the film's flaws all the more apparent. I'd actually prefered it if they'd just nicked a couple of ideas from the book and made their own thing.

Bugger... I misremembered. I was thinking of the upcoming animated version of Batman: Year One. Silly me.(But I'm still adamant that Conroy voices the Bat, which he's doing for Year One. Has a nice cyclic aspect to it.)

@ Cat Vincent - Kevin is great, but it's like saying only one person could draw Batman. Different takes on the character require different voice casts. I don't know where you got your info about Year One. They haven't officially announced a voice cast yet.

EDIT - I guess they announced it this morning so I guess I can talk about it now:

@William:...yeah, I just heard. Ah well, there goes that bit of poetic symmetry! Let's see if this Ben McKenzie guy can do the job.Eliza Dushku as Catwoman, though - that makes sense on so many levels (and I kinda wish she was doing the gig on Dark Knight Rises...)